Continually poking someone for 20+ years isn’t strength, it’s stupidity. Poking then condemning the eventually push back is even more stupid. NATO should have been disbanded when the Warsaw Pact was.
“Continually poking someone for 20+ years isn’t strength, it’s stupidity. Poking then condemning the eventually push back is even more stupid.”
Agreed. Putin should have accepted Ukrainian and Georgian independence rather than trying to annex them using the age old tactic of claiming persecuted ethnic minorities. Ukraine and Georgia wouldn’t be rushing to join NATO if he simply respected their independence.